Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Many of us are Huawei smartphone users and fans but there is one thing really annoying about using a Huawei phone apart from not really grasping the water and dust proof technology (that we have gotten used to anyways). It is on how slow they are in updating their firmware,…

Huawei reveals next-gen quick charge technology, faster by ten minutes. Super smart, super fast, super cool, super safe. As smartphones have physically grown in size, adding ever more power-hungry displays and battery-sapping features, charging times have steadily increased. Fast charging technologies, however, have seen these times tumble again, letting you keep…

Kwesé TV started the #GoGettaz competition for entrepreneurs on 18 August 2017, a challenge to inspire entrepreneurship launched on win.kwese.com and the Facebook page of Mr Masiyiwa which has over 3 million followers, many of them aspiring African entrepreneurs. Kwesé TV is holding semi-finals of the #GoGettaz entrepreneurship competition in Nairobi, Kenya…

Samsung’s Artificial Intelligence capabilities may be shown off with the Galaxy S9 at MWC 2018. Samsung is said to be on the verge of completing its first neural processing units (NPUs), also known as AI chips. These would feature in its major upcoming smartphones and could help differentiate its handsets…

Apple has faced intense competition in the China smartphone market for quite some time and has only gotten fiercer in recent years. Companies such as Xiaomi, OPPO, Vivo, and Huawei are aggressively attacking this market by trying to offer devices that are jam-packed with whiz-bang features while selling them at…

WOW! This year’s Olympics participants in PyeongChang, South Korea, ain’t just lucky but blessed because Samsung has recently produced more than 4,000 special edition Galaxy Note 8s to hand out to Olympics participants for FREE. The device comes with a white rear, white S-Pen, gold accents, and a custom software…

Truecaller the popular and most preferred caller ID app is transforming today’s phonebook to make it more intelligent and useful by recently launching Truecaller Backup for Android, a new feature which allows users to back up and restore their contacts, call history, block list, and settings. The feature comes in handy…

Just in case you missed out on all the big announcements made on this year’s CES event held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada from Tuesday, January 9 till Friday, January 12. Well, considering that it’s new year, I have just done you a huge favor by…

Back in June, at the 2017 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced the launch of Apple HomePod smart hi-fi speaker, with an onsale date set at before the end of last year. However, in November Apple said that it wasn’t ready, explaining in a statement: “We can’t wait for people to experience…

200 entrepreneurs from violence-affected parts of Nigeria will receive business grants and mentorship to rebuild their livelihoods. Yesterday, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to empower 200 Nigerians in distressed communities in the northeast and Niger Delta. The foundation…

Zimbabwe is set to host the Data Centre Africa Expo Conference (DCA) – the first ever in the country. Hence, you must buy your tickets now, only 23 days left. Data Centre Conferences occur worldwide, all in a bid to discover, discuss, learn and take advantage of opportunities that data centres…

Africa does offers large, young markets that can sustain mobile phone applications, cybersecurity services and health technology. The government of Finland has raised €8.7m to fund technology start-ups in SA, Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia through the Southern Africa Innovation Support (SAIS) programme. Startups and companies will have access to these funds…

Zambia will hold its first ever e-commerce expo this year in June at the Mulungushi Conference Centre under an inspiring theme “E-commerce – A Catalyst in Zambia’s Economic Growth.“ This event is solely dedicated to promoting e-commerce in Zambia and it will provide a unique platform for organizations to interact and…

This is merely to remind you of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) that it’s accepting applications for the 4th cycle of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. Outstanding African entrepreneurs who have start-ups or business ideas with the potential to grow are encouraged to apply. Through this business development programme, they provide training, mentoring,…

Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2018) — Toyota vehicles to feature Amazon’s Alexa this new year. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) being currently held in Las Vegas, Nevada Amazon.com announced that its voice-activated virtual assistant, Alexa, will be added to a selection of Toyota and Lexus vehicles in 2018, advancing Amazon’s ambitions to expand…

Flare, is a Kenyan emergency services platform that was launched in December 2017, born from the recognized need of private and public providers to better serve their constituencies. In areas underserved by public emergency infrastructure, Flare tools help provide the best care most efficiently. Flare is designed with and for emergency…

Publiseer is a free digital publishing platform for independent Nigerian authors and artists. Publiseer is indeed the lifeline for every young and budding Nigerian author and artist. Even more so, for established Nigerian authors and artists, who are seeking for ways to sell their work on the World Wide Web. It’s…

Data from the Communications Authority (CA) shows that the value of mobile commerce transactions grew significantly faster than person-to-person transfers. Kenyans transacted Sh1.7 trillion over their phones in the quarter through September 2017, a 54.5 percent increase from a similar period last year as subscribers increasingly used mobile money to…

Former NetOne CEO and Whistlebrower Reward Kangai has opened a can of worms on some alleged misuse of office and corruption charges against the ICT and Cyber Security Minister Supa Mandiwanzira. These charges have even gotten the attention of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) who are currently investigating him but the…

Telecel Zimbabwe, was founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of Telecel International, a company owned by Rwandan-born billionaire Miko Rwayitare. The company was 60% owned by Telecel International and 40% owned by the Empowerment Corporation, a consortium of local empowerment groups. Telecel bid for and won a telecommunications license in early 1997.…